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January 2nd, 2013

Up, Running and Open for Business in 2013

Quentin James Design is open for business in 2013 after a restful and relaxing Christmas break. 2013 is shaping up to be a hectic year already, with a number of exciting new projects in the Agriculture, Motorsport and Technology sectors, several new website design and development briefs and another new Investor Relations project. We’ve also […]

December 11th, 2012

Christmas Holidays 2012

We hope you are entering into the festive spirit this year – we certainly are! As such, Quentin James Design will be closed for the holidays from Friday 21st December 2012 and will reopen in the new year on Wednesday 2nd January 2013. May we take this opportunity to wish all our clients, suppliers, partners […]

August 9th, 2012

Are ‘Chirps’ Audible QR Codes?

We love QR codes, those funny, square bar codes which link the offline world to the online world. Now, London based Animal Systems, a creative technology company have taken this principle but instead of using a visual code, they’ve designed an audible code – or as they call it a ‘Chirp’. Chirp uses an ‘electronic […]

July 1st, 2012

System Prefs Shortcut Tip for Mac OS X

All recent Apple computer keyboards feature a row of dedicated media keys on the top row of the keyboard. These allow you to quickly and easily access functions such as Dashboard and Exposé, adjust screen brightness and the volume level, and control music and movie playback. Within Mac OS X, each of these functions has […]

June 26th, 2012

Skeumorphic Design in new iOS Podcast app

As you may know, here at Quentin James Design, we love our podcasts. So we were really pleased when earlier today, Apple launched a beautifully designed, dedicated Podcast app for iOS devices running iOS 5.1 or higher. The app allows users to stream and download podcast episodes, sync playback with other devices, discover and subscribe […]

March 31st, 2012

World Backup Day 2012

Today, March 31st 2012, is World Backup Day. We posted our thoughts on data backup and disaster recovery a few months ago which you can read here. If you’re a Mac user, then Dave Hamilton and John F Braun discuss various strategies on the latest episode of the Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast (#388). […]

February 17th, 2012

Barking Mad Ad

  Dog food manufacturer Bakers has just launched the first British advertisement made specifically for dogs. The advert, which aired for the first time last week on ITV 1, includes sounds which are beyond the range of human hearing. The commercial is a pastiche of classic movie ‘The Italian Job’ but with a difference. According […]

January 20th, 2012

Screen Capture Tips for Mac OS X

Running a busy design studio means that we’re often working on several different projects at any one time and collaborating with our clients, project partners and other creative agencies on a day-to-day basis. Juggling various different graphic design concepts and website design projects is time consuming in itself and sometimes we just want to quickly […]

January 3rd, 2012

Open for business in 2012

Quentin James Design is open for business after a restful and relaxing Christmas break. The new year already promises a number of fantastic projects in the Motorsports arena for a range of different clients, several new website design and development projects, at least one new Investor Relations brief and an exciting new Brightpearl project. In […]

December 12th, 2011

Christmas Holidays

We hope you are entering into the festive spirit this year – we certainly are! As such, Quentin James Design will be closed for the holidays from Friday 23th December 2011 and will reopen in the new year on Tuesday 3rd January 2012. May we take this opportunity to wish all our clients, suppliers, partners […]